Television in Black-And-White America: Race and National Identity

by Alan Nadel

Alan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm--particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America.

Nadel depicts a time when television effectively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613986
• ISBN13: 9780700613984
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"